Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 7
The two brothers wanted to catch two, and roast them.
Who acts: two brothers · What happens: want, catch, roast · To what, where: two, brother
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 catch | mark |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 catch | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 roast | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 roast | cc |
| 10 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 catch | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 roast | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the two brothers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the two brothers not said here | two | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roast | infinitive | the two brothers not said here | brother | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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